There's two problems. One is that fairly reasonable source has said in great confidence that he has a Gentleman's Agreement with Real, to move next year - BVB respect that, and it makes sense to all parties for him to stay another year. The second is that Mino and Pep have history. They just do. The drama surrounding Ibra's time at Barca was a bad scene, it got personal, and definitely interfered with Pep and Barca's business. The deal itself was terrible - beyond anything you can imagine. What happens next is history. Pep walks the next summer, and it ushers in the Bartomeu era.
And we've seen Mino agitate in many other occassions. March this year, Mino roared into a delicate matter at PSV, causing a great deal of unhappiness and problems for the coach.
His deals stink. It's not just the Ibra / Eto'o swap (and I reccomend checking the details of that to see how bad it actually was). Remember Mikhtaryan and Sanchez? What a farce that was. Both teams lost heavily. Utd haven't held onto a manager since Pogba arrived. Woodward kept falling for Mino's shit. Now he's gone.
Look at his players:
Veratti ...known as a mindless idiot, in an undisciplined team, at an underachieving club that keeps turning over managers.
De Ligt is at Juve ....for some reason!?
Now Donnarumma is moving to join the party at PSG. A travesty - he should have been AC's Buffon, but they couldn't renew him. Mino demanded a huge wage, and 20m commission on top for himself.
And Mario! Oh Mario. From 6-1 and the World Cup, to French mid table obscurity... now Serie B... if anyone needed proper personal and professional guidance from their agent, it was Mario. Hardly. Mancini may have been the only one who had his interests at heart. Mino and others just used him.
Now, Tolmie says - there's no problem there. Pep would work with Mino.
I... don't know. Officially, I imagine that is the line. But I find it really easy to believe Pep looks at all of that and thinks - no way, we're just better off without anything to do with Mino's caravan of troubled superstars and seven figure personal commissions.
The only thing I think that gets around that is that Mino is only an adviser to the Haalands.
